Um, bugger. Plenty of surf today but a fair bit of wind! We could hear the surf booming all night but woke up to an onshore, sloppy mess of huge waves at the point at Congo. We cruised down the coast and checked a bunch of spots but nothing was working in the huge swell and nobody out. Eventually we saw some guys out at the Narooma breakwall, on jetskis. Clearly towing in was the only way to get waves today. Although it wasn't super-huge, it was solid with lots of water moving around. You'd never get a wave by paddling and it wasn't really that great. Oh well.
We bought the papers and had an extended breakfast and multiple coffees in a nice cafe in Narooma. Great little town, will no doubt be heaving in a few weeks time when school holidays start! Continued the cruisy day back at the campsite, reading books and dozing in our chairs. Life could be worse.
The swell and wind both dropped off later in the arvo so I decided to head out by myself at the point to try and get some of the elusive righthanders that came through every now and then. It turned out to be pretty crap but good fitness! I hardly stopped paddling for an hour and got the occassional slabby 4 foot wave that heaved over the rock shelf and then fattened out down the line. Slightly scary at some points due to all the lumps of water but good to be out there amongst nature. That is until the large dark shape appeared in a wave hurtling straight for me! I only saw if for a second. Shark or dolphin? Hmmm, 99% sure it was a dolphin but I didn't see it again and was suddenly keen to head in.
Surf: Congo Point, NSW, 3-4 foot, 1.0hr (151.0 total)
